Only 800,000 Children a Year — Are We Waiting For Something Serious?
… In August 2007, a sex offender in a Southeastern state was released from prison. He was placed under mandatory community supervision supplemented with iSECUREtrac’s active GPS monitoring system which provides location data and notification of compliance violations in near real-time.
Later in the month following his release, this offender allegedly abducted a young girl from her residence. The iSECUREtrac monitoring center received a call from the offender’s probation officer requesting assistance with locating the offender. Using iSECUREtrac’s proprietary tracking software, a monitoring center representative lead the probation officer, a detective and 15 patrol cars to an area where they apprehended the offender. The victim, who was not harmed during the incident, was recovered by the team of officers. The offender was taken into custody and charges are pending. One officer stated that, “the iSECUREtrac monitoring center was a big help in catching this guy.”
Nationally, the statistics on child abductions are appalling. According to the US Department of Justice, nearly 800,000 children are reported missing every year…. Read more about how we can help 800,000 children a year here:
Yep, you’re going to get another post from me on this subject. It’s really remarkable to me that I don’t get comments, emails and such on this subject more often … because if there is anything that sticks in my craw it’s crimes against children … and if there is any aspect of crimes against children that really makes me mad it’s the current situation today where thousands and thousands of regulatory and law enforcement leaders won’t get off their dead asses long enough to do something about it.
GPS Tracking of pretrial, work-release and paroled child crime offenders … it’s not just sex crimes we are talking about here .. has been proven not to cost but to pay. GPS tracking these individuals saves on:
- Incarceration costs
- Labor hours for parole or police professional monitors
- Investigation costs
- Court costs
- Offender family costs … send the accused out to work to support his family … his own children have to eat no matter what crime he is accused of or stands convicted of.
- And the list goes on and on
So, fellows and gals out there … those in the law enforcement system and those of you who pay taxes to support law enforcement (I think that covers just about all of you), when are we going to take proven steps to save 800,000 (in the US alone, Lord only knows the world-wide figure) children a year from trauma or worse and save money at the same time?